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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:03:02 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Not autoloading functions
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 29/01/2017 17:56, Wes wrote:
> Hi Rowan, I probably wasn't clear enough. How is having to write
> use namespace Foo\Bar\Baz;
> better than
> require_once("../Foo/Bar/Baz/functions.php");

OK, your last question just mentioned putting multiple functions in one 
file, not that you were addressing that particular proposal. Those are 
very different parts of the conversation. In an ideal world, just 
calling "\Foo\Bar\Baz\frobnicate()" would trigger an autoloader, and 
that autoloader could decide to require_once one big file if that's what 
the library author wanted.

To an extent, I agree that requiring you to import a namespace in order 
to autoload it is perhaps too much of a compromise. There is some 
advantage over a plain require_once, though, in that you don't need to 
hard-code into your application the directory layout of some other 
library; it would be more akin to having a global function like 
"load_function_definitions($namespace);"

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]